§ 82. — Payments under contracts; aiding in making prohibited contracts.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 25USC82]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 3--AGREEMENTS WITH INDIANS
SUBCHAPTER II--CONTRACTS WITH INDIANS
Sec. 82. Payments under contracts; aiding in making prohibited
contracts
No money shall be paid to any agent or attorney by an officer of the
United States under any such contract or agreement, other than the fees
due him for services rendered thereunder; but the moneys due the tribe,
Indian, or Indians, as the case may be, shall be paid by the United
States, through its own officers or agents, to the party or parties
entitled thereto; and no money or thing shall be paid to any person for
services under such contract or agreement, until such person shall have
first filed with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs a sworn statement,
showing each particular act of service under the contract, giving date
and fact in detail, and the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner
of Indian Affairs shall determine therefrom whether, in their judgment,
such contract or agreement has been complied with or fulfilled; if so,
the same may be paid, and, if not, it shall be paid in proportion to the
services rendered under the contract.
(R.S. Sec. 2104.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2104 derived from act May 21, 1872, ch. 177, Sec. 3, 17
Stat. 137.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
